Compiling on Debian 6.0.2 (Linux 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Mon Jun) and autoconf error

[Vadtec]

Greetings all,

OS: Debian 6.0.2 (Linux 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Mon Jun)
pushpool: 0.5.1

Pursuant to https://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8707.msg135119#msg135119, I have ran into a problem.

I have downloaded pushpool 0.5.1, and extracted it. When I cd into the dir, I do not see a "configure" script, so I run autoreconf, and get the following:

Code:

alex@home:~/bitcoin$ cd pushpool-0.5.1/
alex@home:~/bitcoin/pushpool-0.5.1$ autoreconf
configure.ac:35: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

Knowing this is a problem, I the run autoreconf -vi, and get the following:

Code:

alex@home:~/bitcoin/pushpool-0.5.1$ autoreconf -vi
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal 
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader
autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force
autoreconf: Leaving directory `.'

All seems well...but it's not. Having accounted for some missing packages (like a new enough openssl), I proceed to the following:

Code:

alex@home:~/bitcoin/pushpool-0.5.1$ ./configure LDFLAGS=-L/home/alex/bitcoin/openssl/lib/ CPPFLAGS=-I/home/alex/bitcoin/openssl/include/
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for event_base_new in -levent... yes
checking for pthread_create in -lpthread... yes
checking for uncompress in -lz... yes
checking for json_loads in -ljansson... yes
checking for MD5_Init in -lcrypto... yes
checking for memcached_get in -lmemcached... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 2.2... python
checking for python... /usr/bin/python
checking for python version... 2.6
checking for python platform... linux2
checking for python script directory... ${prefix}/lib/python2.6/dist-packages
checking for python extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.6/dist-packages
./configure: line 4767: syntax error near unexpected token `AX_LIB_MYSQL'
./configure: line 4767: `AX_LIB_MYSQL()'

and

Code:

alex@home:~/bitcoin/pushpool-0.5.1$ ls m4/
ax_lib_mysql.m4  ax_lib_postgresql.m4  ax_lib_sqlite3.m4

Thinking that maybe something from autom4te is out of sync, I then run autoreconf -fvi and get the following:

Code:

alex@home:~/bitcoin/pushpool-0.5.1$ autoreconf -fvi
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force 
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
configure.ac:35: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

To help, here are the versions of the autotools suit I'm using:

Code:

automake (GNU automake) 1.11.1
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

aclocal (GNU automake) 1.11.1
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.67
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

autoheader (GNU Autoconf) 2.67
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

autom4te (GNU Autoconf) 2.67
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

I am a programmer, but I am not well versed in autotools or m4, so I am at a loss as to what is going on with this. Does anyone have any info on how to get pushpool compiled on Debian 6, or how to fix this error? Any help is greatly appreciated.

- Vadtec

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[drawoc]

Do you have the packages libtool and libmysql++-dev installed?

[Vadtec]

drawoc,

Yes, both are installed. But the problem lies with the "error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR" issue, and also the issue that autom4te doesn't seem to be finding the m4 file for AX_LIB_MYSQL.

Code:

ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 2.2.6b
Written by Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, 1996

Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

- Vadtec

[drawoc]

It just occurred to me, you should probably be running ./autogen.sh instead of doing the autotools commands yourself. Running that file should solve your issue.

If you look in it, the significant part is:

Code:

aclocal -I m4

Which tells aclocal to include the additional files you need.

[Vadtec]

drawoc,

I just extracted pushpool-0.5.1.tar.gz, and I have the following:

Code:

[btc@vps pushpool-0.5.1]$ ls 
aclocal.m4  AUTHORS                ChangeLog  config.guess  configure.ac  db-postgresql.c  elist.h             hist.c  INSTALL     Makefile.am  msg.c       README    ubbp.h
anet.c      autotools-config.h.in  compile    config.sub    COPYING       db-sqlite.c      example-blkmon.cfg  htab.c  install-sh  Makefile.in  NEWS        server.c  util.c
anet.h      blkmond                config.c   configure     db-mysql.c    depcomp          example-cfg.json    htab.h  m4          missing      protocol.h  server.h

As you can see, no autogen.sh. I will try manually running aclocal -I m4 and see what happens. Since I didn't see it, I thought maybe it wasn't a setup that used it, so I didn't bother asking about it.

- Vadtec

[drawoc]

Oh, I was assuming that you were using the github branch from that post you linked to (https://github.com/jine/pushpool)

Anyway, hopefully running that command should help, although you need to run autoconf again after that to re generate configure.

If that doesn't work, here's the full autogen.sh for reference:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

# You need autoconf 2.5x, preferably 2.57 or later
# You need automake 1.7 or later. 1.6 might work.

set -e

aclocal -I m4
autoheader
automake --gnu --add-missing --copy
autoconf

[Vadtec]

drawoc,

I ran the following on a fresh extract of the tarball:

Code:

alex@home:~/bitcoin$ cd pushpool-0.5.1/
alex@home:~/bitcoin/pushpool-0.5.1$ aclocal -I m4
alex@home:~/bitcoin/pushpool-0.5.1$ autoheader
alex@home:~/bitcoin/pushpool-0.5.1$ automake
alex@home:~/bitcoin/pushpool-0.5.1$ autoconf
configure.ac:35: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.

Thankfully, running the script you provided yielded a working configure script...so far. I'll fix the dependency issues and report if that fixed the problem or not.

- Vadtec

[Vadtec]

drawoc,

I just ran the configure script, and didn't get any errors about AC_MSG_ERROR or AX_LIB_MYSQL, but I am getting the following now:

Code:

checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking for SQLite3 library >= 3.0.0... not found
checking for mysql_config... /usr/bin/mysql_config
checking for pg_config... no
no
./configure: line 5644: syntax error near unexpected token `,'
./configure: line 5644: `LIBCURL_CHECK_CONFIG(, 7.10.1, ,'

I'm researching what might be going on, but I have the curl packages installed, so I'm going to defer back to m4 on this one too.

- Vadtec

* Addendum: I just cloned the git repo and I am receiving the same error as above.

[drawoc]

You definitely have the -dev packages installed? Hmm, odd.
Does /usr/share/aclocal/libcurl.m4 exist? (I assume it does)

If you read your aclocal.m4, do you see a comment block like this (It's on the first page for me):

Code:

# LIBCURL_CHECK_CONFIG ([DEFAULT-ACTION], [MINIMUM-VERSION],
#                       [ACTION-IF-YES], [ACTION-IF-NO])
# ----------------------------------------------------------
#      David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>   May-09-2006

[Vadtec]

drawoc,

Code:

root@home:~# apt-get install libcurl-dev         
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package libcurl-dev is a virtual package provided by:
  libcurl4-openssl-dev 7.21.0-2
  libcurl4-gnutls-dev 7.21.0-2
You should explicitly select one to install.

E: Package 'libcurl-dev' has no installation candidate
root@home:~# dpkg -l | grep curl                 
ii  curl                                 7.21.0-2                          Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS or FTP server
ii  libcurl-ocaml                        0.5.3-1                           OCaml curl bindings (Runtime Library)
ii  libcurl3                             7.21.0-2                          Multi-protocol file transfer library (OpenSSL)
ii  libcurl3-gnutls                      7.21.0-2                          Multi-protocol file transfer library (GnuTLS)
ii  libcurl4-openssl-dev                 7.21.0-2                          Development files and documentation for libcurl (OpenSSL)
ii  php5-curl                            5.3.3-7+squeeze3                  CURL module for php5
root@home:~# apt-get install libcurl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libcurl
root@home:~# apt-get install curl-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package curl-dev

I have to assume I have it installed. I reinstalled all of it, and it is working now.

Talk about an evening of ::annoyed:: lol...

Thanks for the help!

- Vadtec

[drawoc]

Glad it's working for you.